Cities first came into existence more than five thousand years ago. How to deal with these
partly fascinating, partly frightening creatures of mankind, both practically and intellectually …

Complexity, Cognition and the City aims at a deeper understanding of urbanism, while
invoking, on an equal footing, the contributions both the hard and soft sciences have made …

In this new paperback edition of Early Civilizations of the Old World, Charles Keith Maisels
traces the development of some of the earliest and key civilizations in history. In each case …

This study presents a revised view of Egyptian foreign relations in the eastern
Mediterranean during the Old Kingdom (3rd-6th Dynasties) based on an extensive analysis …

The Southern Levant was a thriving centre of religious and cultural exchange during the
Bronze Age.'Early Bronze Age Goods Exchange in the Southern Levant'provides an …

Today's politicians argue that the more'connected'societies are the less danger they pose to
global stability. But is this a'new'idea or one as old as history itself? Trade routes as far back …

Self-organization, that is to say, the phenomena by which a system self-organizes its internal
structure independent of external causes, is a fundamental property of open and complex …

Excavations at Tel Beth-Shean 1989-1996 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Institute
of Archaeology The Beth-Shean Valley Archaeological Project Publication No. 1 Publication …

Excavations at the site of Hartuv, in the Shephelah region of Israel, have revealed a single-
period site dating to the Early Bronze I. The major discovery is an architectural complex …

The fifth and fourth millennia BCE saw major cultural changes in the southern Levant and
Northeast Africa: the spread of agriculture; developments in animal husbandry; increased …